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ALH 84001 is a roughly 4.1-billion-year-old Martian orthopyroxenite meteorite found in Antarctica's Allan Hills in 1984. In 1996, researchers reported microscopic structures and chemical features that they interpreted as possible evidence of ancient Martian life, prompting extensive scientific debat...
Tissint is a Martian shergottite whose fall was witnessed in southern Morocco in July 2011, with fragments recovered from the desert soon afterward. Its relatively rapid collection limited terrestrial contamination, making it valuable for studying Martian minerals, impact processes, trapped atmosphe...
Elephant Moraine A79001, commonly abbreviated EETA79001, is a Martian shergottite discovered in Antarctica in 1979. Glassy impact-melt inclusions within it contain gases whose elemental and isotopic composition closely matches measurements of the Martian atmosphere made by the Viking landers. That c...
Nakhla is a Martian meteorite that fell near El Nakhla El Bahariya in Egypt on 28 June 1911. It is the type specimen for nakhlites, igneous rocks dominated by clinopyroxene that crystallized from magma on Mars and were later launched into space by an impact. Secondary minerals and alteration feature...
Shergotty is a basaltic Martian meteorite that fell near Sherghati, in present-day Bihar, India, in 1865. Its mineral composition, trapped gases, and other chemical evidence connect it to rocks ejected from Mars by an impact. The specimen gives its name to shergottites, the largest major group withi...
Chassigny is a Martian meteorite that fell near Chassigny, France, in 1815. It is composed predominantly of olivine-rich dunite and gives its name to the chassignites, a rare group within the SNC meteorites from Mars. Researchers study its minerals, isotopes, and trapped gases to investigate the Mar...
Zagami is a Martian basaltic shergottite meteorite that fell near Zagami, Nigeria, in 1962. The recovered stone weighed about 18 kilograms, making it one of the largest individual Martian meteorites known. Its igneous minerals and trapped gases have been studied as evidence of volcanic processes and...
Lafayette is a nakhlite, a type of igneous meteorite identified as originating on Mars. It was recognized in the collection of Purdue University in Indiana by 1931, although the circumstances and date of its arrival on Earth remain uncertain. Studies of alteration minerals within it, including clay...
NWA 2737 is a Martian meteorite found in Northwest Africa in 2000 and classified as a chassignite, a rare subgroup of the SNC meteorites. It consists chiefly of olivine-rich dunite and records igneous processes within Mars. Its unusual mineralogy makes it useful to researchers studying the compositi...
Yamato 000593 is a Martian meteorite recovered in Antarctica's Yamato Mountains and classified as a nakhlite, one of the recognized groups within the SNC meteorites. Its mass of about 13.7 kilograms makes it a substantial recovered specimen of Martian rock. Like other nakhlites, it is studied for ev...
QUE 94201 is a Martian meteorite recovered in Antarctica's Queen Alexandra Range during the 1994 field season. It is classified as a basaltic shergottite, a type of igneous rock ejected from Mars by an impact and later delivered to Earth. Laboratory studies have placed its crystallization at roughly...
Nakhlite Martian meteorite collected in the Yamato Mountains, Antarctica during a Japanese expedition in 1979, notable for secondary minerals indicating aqueous alteration on Mars.
Martian shergottite found in Libya in 1998, among the first Martian meteorites recovered from the Libyan Sahara and notable for its basaltic composition.
Nakhlite Martian meteorite found in Minas Gerais, Brazil in 1958, one of the few Martian meteorites discovered outside polar or arid desert environments.
Martian basaltic shergottite found in the Dhofar region of Oman in 2000, notable for a young crystallization age of approximately 180 million years.
Sayh al Uhaymir 005 is a Martian meteorite found in Oman in 1999 and classified as an olivine-phyric shergottite, a basaltic rock of volcanic origin. Its mineralogy and trapped gases link it to Mars, while its recovery in the Arabian Peninsula places it among several Martian meteorites identified in...
Meteorite found in the Dar al Gani region of Libya, one of hundreds of specimens recovered from this prolific North African find area since the 1990s.
Meteorite from Northwest Africa, part of the extensive catalogued collection of specimens recovered by prospectors from North African desert regions.
Meteorite found in the Ramlat as Sahmah sand sea of Oman, one of many specimens recovered from the Arabian Peninsula region that has yielded diverse meteorite types.
Meteorite from Northwest Africa, acquired through the commercial trade in North African desert finds and catalogued in the international meteoritical registry.
